From Spark to Draft: How to Take an Idea and Develop It Into a Story
5 min readApr 18, 2019
The road from story spark to finished manuscript is long and rocky. Often we stumble at the first pothole. The first gate. Or we get so far and the landslide of life kills the story idea before we manage to finish a first draft. Even a short story or a picture book needs a mountain of perseverance to come to completion.
